{"id":209529,"date":"2019-04-12T02:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=209529"},"modified":"2019-04-12T02:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T06:00:49","slug":"police-military-always-on-alert-amid-us-travel-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/12\/police-military-always-on-alert-amid-us-travel-advisory\/","title":{"rendered":"Police, military always \u2018on alert\u2019 amid US travel advisory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWell, iyong PNP\u00a0naman natin at saka lahat ng\u00a0military\u00a0palagi silang\u00a0on alert;\u00a0mayroon silang mga\u00a0intelligence surveillance (The Philippine National Police and military are always on alert; they have intelligence surveillance),\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a Palace briefing. (Photo<\/a>:
Philippine National Police\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday assured that the police and the military are always on alert after the US State Department updated travel advisories for 35 countries, including the Philippines, indicating the risk of kidnapping and hostage-taking.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, iyong PNP\u00a0naman natin at saka lahat ng<\/em>\u00a0military\u00a0palagi silang<\/em>\u00a0on alert;\u00a0mayroon silang mga<\/em>\u00a0intelligence surveillance (The Philippine National Police and military are always on alert; they have intelligence surveillance),\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n

\u201cPero<\/em>\u00a0somehow,\u00a0may makakalusot at makakalusot<\/em>\u00a0(But somehow, it still keeps happening). It happens to every country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The advisories came days after American tourist Kimberly Sue Endicott and her tour guide were abducted and eventually rescued in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.<\/p>\n

Travel advisories have also been issued for the following high-threat countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Russian Federation, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine (in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine), Venezuela, and Yemen.<\/p>\n

Panelo, meanwhile, described as an \u201cisolated incident\u201d the report on the kidnapping of businessman Allan Fajardo and his bodyguard Ricky Atienza in a restaurant of a hotel in Sta. Rosa City, Laguna.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s an isolated incident. There must be a determined kidnapper,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

On the release of travel advisories, the defense department said that it is always the prerogative of countries to warn their citizens from traveling to areas they deem unsafe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0— Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday assured that the police and the military are always on alert after the US State Department …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":177705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209530,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209529\/revisions\/209530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}